瑞州洞山良价禪師語錄 1.104

1.104

師作五位君臣頌云：「正中偏，三更初夜月明前，莫怪相逢不相識，隱隱猶懷舊日嫌。偏中正，失曉老婆逢古鏡，分明覿面別無真，休更迷頭猶認影。正中來，無中有路隔塵埃，但能不觸當今諱，也勝前朝斷舌才。兼中至，兩刃交鋒不須避，好手猶如火裏蓮，宛然自有冲天志。兼中到，不落有無誰敢和，人人盡欲出常流，折合還歸炭裏坐。」

The Master composed verses on the Five Ranks of Lord and Vassal: / The crooked within the upright: / In the third watch at early night, before the moon shines bright; / Do not wonder that they meet without recognizing each other, / Concealed, they still harbor the former day's resentment. / The upright within the crooked: / An old woman waking past dawn encounters an ancient mirror; / Clearly face-to-face, there is no other reality, / Cease getting lost again about your head while still mistaking the reflection. / Coming from within the upright: / Within nothingness there is a path kept apart from the worldly dust; / If only one can avoid offending the taboo name of the current sovereign, / It still surpasses the tongue-severing talent of the former dynasty. / Arriving within the integrated: / When two blades cross points, there is no need to avoid them; / An adept is just like a lotus in fire, / Naturally possessing an aspiration that reaches to heaven. / Attaining within the integrated: / Falling into neither existence nor non-existence, who dares harmonize with it? / Everyone wishes to step out of the common flow, / Yet in the end they come back together to sit within the charcoal.